US Patent Issued to Genentech on July 1 for "Bicyclic ketone compounds and methods of use thereof" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,612, issued on July 1, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Bicyclic ketone compounds and methods of use thereof" was invented by Snahel Patel (Foster City, Calif.), Gregory Hamilton (Atlanta), Guiling Zhao (San Mateo, Calif.), Huifen Chen (Burlingame, Calif.), Blake Daniels (Oakland, Calif.) and Craig Stivala (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide compounds having the general formula I:wherein R1, R2, R3a and R3b are as described herein, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of using the compounds."

The patent was filed on July ...